January 2009

It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

January 17, 2009

Enrico and I were married (by a justice of the peace in New Haven, Connecticutt) on January 17th, 1989. Here’s the story: Part 1: Tanzania Surprise Part 2: Coca-Cola, and an Ostrich Part 3: Justice of the Peace Part 4: The Wedding

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines, Jan 2 2009

January 15, 2009

Lecco: Beats/strikes [female] companion – arrested Pasturo [a small town in the mountains]: party in a mountain cabin, dies at 22 years. [We know from the local grapevine that the cause of death was probably a drug overdose. The young man dropped dead at the dinner table at a New Year's party among friends.]

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LOLcat: Thiz MY Nose

January 15, 2009

alternative caption: Did you get that bogey yet? Ruth & Harley. It wasn’t hard to get this picture: Harley puts her paw on Ruth’s nose every time Ruth picks her up. No idea why.

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Keynote: Dave Stewart: Experience Empowering OpenSolaris Developers on Intel Hardware

January 15, 2009

Intel’s David C. Stewart presents on "Empowering OpenSolaris Developers on Intel Hardware" at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference, June 27, 2008, in Prague. For more information  filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan download for iPod: part 1, part 2, part 3 embed this video into your own website/blog: part 1 <object width=”480″ height=”376″><param name=”movie” value=”http://mediacast.sun.com/flash/jw-flv-player/mediaplayer.swf?width=480&height=360&autostart=false&type=flv&file=http%3A%2F%2Fmediacast.sun.com%2Fusers%2FDeirdre%2Fmedia%2Fosdevdave1_med.flv”/><param name=”allowFullScreen” [...]

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Interview with Max Alt (Intel)

January 15, 2009

Jim Grisanzio interviews Intel’s Max Alt about Open Solaris and Intel. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan 

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Interview with Kelly Nishimura

January 15, 2009

Jim Grisanzio interviews Kelly Nishimura, Open Solaris Program Manager, at the Open Solaris Developer Conference, Prague, June 2008. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan 

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Ourstage Interview

January 15, 2009

Talking Open Storage with Mark Niedzielski, Infrastructure Manager at OurStage.com. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan download for iPod embed this video into your own website/blog: <object width=”480″ height=”376″><param name=”movie” value=”http://mediacast.sun.com/flash/jw-flv-player/mediaplayer.swf?width=480&height=360&autostart=false&type=flv&file=http%3A%2F%2Fmediacast.sun.com%2Fusers%2FDeirdre%2Fmedia%2F0809ourstage2.flv”/><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/><embed src=”http://mediacast.sun.com/flash/jw-flv-player/mediaplayer.swf?width=480&height=360&autostart=false&type=flv&file=http%3A%2F%2Fmediacast.sun.com%2Fusers%2FDeirdre%2Fmedia%2F0809ourstage2.flv” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”480″ height=”376″></embed></object>

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Flash Performance in Storage Systems

January 15, 2009

download Flash Performance in Storage Systems iPod version Bill Moore, Sun’s Chief Engineer, Storage Systems, presents at the Open Storage Summit, Sept 2008. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan 

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Interview with Evan Powell of Nexenta

January 15, 2009

Sun’s Mark Carlson interviews Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta, at the Open Storage Summit Island Party, Sept 2008. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan download Interview with Evan Powell for iPod

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Interview with Paddy Sreenivasan of Zmanda

January 15, 2009

download Interview with Paddy Sreenivasan of Zmanda for iPod Sun’s Mark Carlson interviews Paddy Sreenivasan, VP of Engineering for Zmanda, at the Open Storage Summit Island Party, Sept 2008. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan embed this video into your own website/blog: <object width=”480″ height=”376″><param name=”movie” value=”http://mediacast.sun.com/flash/jw-flv-player/mediaplayer.swf?width=480&height=360&autostart=false&type=flv&file=http%3A%2F%2Fmediacast.sun.com%2Fusers%2FDeirdre%2Fmedia%2F080921_oss_srinivasan_Lg.flv”/><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/><embed src=”http://mediacast.sun.com/flash/jw-flv-player/mediaplayer.swf?width=480&height=360&autostart=false&type=flv&file=http%3A%2F%2Fmediacast.sun.com%2Fusers%2FDeirdre%2Fmedia%2F080921_oss_srinivasan_Lg.flv” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”480″ height=”376″></embed></object>

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Sun Open Storage

January 15, 2009

download Sun Open Storage iPod Version Mike Shapiro speaks at the Open Storage Summit, Sept 2008. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan embed this video into your own website/blog: <object width=”640″ height=”496″><param name=”movie” value=”http://mediacast.sun.com/flash/jw-flv-player/mediaplayer.swf?width=640&height=480&autostart=false&type=flv&file=http%3A%2F%2Fmediacast.sun.com%2Fusers%2FDeirdre%2Fmedia%2F080921mws_Lg.flv”/><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/><embed src=”http://mediacast.sun.com/flash/jw-flv-player/mediaplayer.swf?width=640&height=480&autostart=false&type=flv&file=http%3A%2F%2Fmediacast.sun.com%2Fusers%2FDeirdre%2Fmedia%2F080921mws_Lg.flv” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”640″ height=”496″></embed></object>

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Open Storage Summit Ben Rockwood Keynote

January 15, 2009

Ben Rockwood of Joyent speaks on “Storage in the Cloud” at the first OpenSolaris Storage Summit, held Sept 21, 2008, in Santa Clara, CA. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan download Open Storage Summit Ben Rockwood Keynote for iPod

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Magician Scott Tokar for Sun Microsystems at SuperComputing 08

January 15, 2009

filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan embed this video into your own website/blog: <object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/oQmi32QyEhg&hl=en&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/oQmi32QyEhg&hl=en&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>

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ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Parts 1, 2 & 3

January 15, 2009

Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore presenting at the SNIA Software Developers’ Conference, Sept 2008, on "ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems". Part 1 download for iPod Part 2 download for iPod Part 3 download for iPod filmed by Deirdré Straughan  edited by Damon Kujawa >Bill Moore and Jeff Bonwick at the SNIA Storage Developers’ [...]

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ZFS Boot in S10U6

January 15, 2009

Lori Alt gives us the deep-dive lowdown on ZFS boot. To download for iPod, click the menu button. Don’t miss the discussion in the comments on the original post of this video – more useful information there, with Q&A with Lori. filmed by Deirdré Straughan, edited by Damon Kujawa

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Solaris iSNS

January 15, 2009

This video was interesting because I filmed it (in Broomfield) and managed to edit it even though it was entirely in Mandarin. Sadly, it was lost in the Oracle acquisition. Solaris iSNS介绍和使用 – Wei Bin Victor Li – in Chinese. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan   

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Italian Graffiti: Walls

January 12, 2009
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The Italian Adam

January 11, 2009

This week I was in Grenoble, France, filming for Sun. Enrico drove over from Lecco to join me on Friday, and we spent the weekend there together. It was too cold to do much roaming around outside, so we went to Grenoble’s fine arts museum, which features a small but impressive collection of paintings, arranged [...]

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Shouting in the Datacenter

January 8, 2009

Brendan Gregg from Sun’s Fishworks team makes an interesting discovery about inducing disk latency. Don’t try this yourself. also see The Making of Shouting in the Datacenter

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Words of Wisdom from Irish Taxi Drivers

January 8, 2009

Taxi drivers the world over are usually gregarious and interested in people (it’s more or less a job requirement). I even met one, years ago in the US, who told me he was driving a taxi to gather stories for a novel he wanted to write. I’ve just made a flying (in all senses of [...]

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